On the record
Tell me not of “failure.” There can be but one failure, and that is the failure to make an end of Slavery; for on this righteous consummation all else depends.
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Sumner asserts that the ultimate failure lies in not abolishing slavery, which he views as essential for progress.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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